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Band of criminal squatters reclaim property after SWAT team raid that found guns, stolen cars
New York Post ^ | February 19, 2023 4:56am Updated | Jesse O’Neill

Posted on 02/19/2023 7:36:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

A group of squatters linked to a car theft ring returned to the Washington state property they illegally colonized during the pandemic last week after they were removed by a SWAT team.

Some 30 officers took in the Wednesday raid of the Lynnwood, Wash., home and found drugs and guns on the property, along with 52 cars – some of them stolen, according to KIRO 7 News.

Five people were arrested after cops corralled a group of squatters who had been living there in “unhealthy and unstable conditions” in the “short term and long term” and had “no ownership” of the home, according to police.

The owner and neighbors reportedly said the “criminals” had been illegally living on the property since the state and federal government placed a moratorium on evictions as COVID-19 first spread across the country.

“They took over the house and we couldn’t collect a dollar of rent, and have a mortgage,” Laleh Kashani, the owner of the property, told the outlet.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
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Lieutenant David Hayes of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office told Fox New Digital that it was “largely on the property owner” to prevent the suspects from returning.

Anarcho-tyranny is the dehumanizing state of affairs whereby the state refuses to prosecute criminals, yet vigorously enforces the law against victims of those criminals when they defend themselves.

1 posted on 02/19/2023 7:36:48 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The is why we can’t allow FJB’s (D)ungbeetles to Nazi confiscate our guns. It’s OUR RESPONSIBLITY to defend our lives and our property. America is rapidly becoming a south of the border style **ithole full of (D)ungbeetle freeloaders.


2 posted on 02/19/2023 7:45:26 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember what FJB Brandon said, "...more than half of the women in my administration are women.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ok, they came back? HIT THEM AGAIN. Lock them up. Why is it so hard to understand? Do these cops write tickets on a street one day and then stand there in slackjawed amazement as they see speeders the next day?

Idiots.


3 posted on 02/19/2023 7:46:39 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“A group of squatters linked to a car theft ring returned to the Washington state property they illegally colonized during the pandemic last week after they were removed by a SWAT team.”

What an insane sentence! Is that The Queen’s English? ;)


4 posted on 02/19/2023 7:49:15 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: FlingWingFlyer

This is how the entire country will look if Democrats get their way


5 posted on 02/19/2023 7:49:30 AM PST by realcleanguy (quickly things are falling apart, now that the )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If the Cops and the Courts can’t or won’t protect Honest Citizens, then it’s time for them to get out of the way and let Real Americans do the job.


6 posted on 02/19/2023 7:50:31 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Situations like this are why fully automatic machine guns are needed and should be legally available.


7 posted on 02/19/2023 7:52:24 AM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So if LE won’t do anything and says it’s up to the property owner, then can the remove them at the point of a gun?


8 posted on 02/19/2023 7:59:22 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Agree Anarcho-tyranny is the dehumanizing state of affairs.

German people didn’t believe there ware death camp until they lost the war and U.S. military made towns people go to the camps to see them first hand.

People can be trained it’s all a matter of how you train them all the chaos we now have is a training class by the left.


9 posted on 02/19/2023 8:04:42 AM PST by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Lieutenant David Hayes of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office told Fox New Digital that it was “largely on the property owner” to prevent the suspects from returning.

She should squat on the property of that official and see if the outcomes are different.


10 posted on 02/19/2023 8:04:57 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.)
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To: DesertRhino

On the left coast they let criminals go free without bail and then only give them minor fines and suspended sentences as punishment. And yes, they turn them loose as fast as they catch them.


11 posted on 02/19/2023 8:06:56 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Is there a lawsuit by landlords against the government for an unconstitutional taking?


12 posted on 02/19/2023 8:09:19 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: Howie66

And the Rats decry it as “vigilantism” and demand you be arrested for protecting what is yours.


13 posted on 02/19/2023 8:11:18 AM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Blacks have placed stronger chains on themselves than the slave masters of old ever forged.)
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To: realcleanguy

Keep voting for the Dems and this is what you will get in return.


14 posted on 02/19/2023 8:16:57 AM PST by chopperk ( )
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To: Blood of Tyrants

So what? Those people are the cause of the problem.


15 posted on 02/19/2023 8:17:11 AM PST by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Presumably state’s have “legislatures”.

If the same squatters forced the same property owner to hand over his wallet or else, the owner would be a victim of robbery. Would the sheriff say responding to that was “largely on the wallet owner”?

A quick online review of the applicable law, reveals that the Sheriff is accurate — the law does nothing but issue a series of warnings that go no where. Legislators need to get off their butts today and write laws making occupying someone else’s property without the owner’s permission a form of grand theft, and under many circumstances, robbery, and explicitly REQUIRE worthless sheriffs to remove squatters, throw them in jail, have the local DA prosecute them, etc.

Why do people in Washington pay Real Estate Property Taxes if the government does nothing to secure their rights in the taxed property? Were the squatters paying the property taxes?


16 posted on 02/19/2023 8:17:13 AM PST by Chewbarkah
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Then load up the shot guns


17 posted on 02/19/2023 8:18:30 AM PST by Nifster ( EI see puppy dogs in the clouds )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

WWMD?
(what would Mossad do?)


18 posted on 02/19/2023 8:21:27 AM PST by Fireone (The only reason our elections are complicated is because the cheaters want it that way.)
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To: Nifster

Burn the place to the ground, blame the squatters, collect the insurance and sell the place.


19 posted on 02/19/2023 8:22:22 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (“Racist” is the new “Nazi”.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Washingtonians brought this on themselves. You won’t find a greater number of condescending, sneering liberals with a superiority complex. They need to “embrace the suck” that they voted for.


20 posted on 02/19/2023 8:26:42 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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